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To install Cygwin, you download and run the setup.
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NB: When you open a Cygwin shell, the Windows environment variables, including PATH, are imported into the shell environment. When we install the following items, we will update the Windows environment variables.
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NB: Test your environment variables by opening a Cygwin shell and typing 'which Tomcat6'. This should return the path to the Tomcat executable.
You can download the latest JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
*Pick the self-installing executable corresponding to your O/S type (32 or 64bits)
*Note where you're installing it. Set the Windows System variable JAVA_HOME to this path.
**I removed the user 'JAVA_HOME' variable to prevent the System variable from being overriden.
Download the self-installing exe from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads
*The most recent 5.1.x is recommended; however, developers are also using 5.5
*Check the box that asks whether you want to include mysql bin directory in the PATH. The option is a checkbox towards the end of the config wizard.
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Ant is available from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
To inform the Cygwin environment of where Ant is, update your Windows environment variables.
NB: Test your environment variables by opening a Cygwin shell and typing 'which ant'. This should return the path to the ant executable.
From a Cygwin window:
*Create -> create a cloudstack-oss directory, cd into it and fire:
*Use git clone to download the a cone of the git repo from
**E.g. -> git clone ssh://<username>@git.cloud.com/var/lib/git/cloudstack-oss
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Copy over the above exe some place in C:\, and set the PATH env variable for Windows 7 to point to this directory.
I installed mine under :
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_02\
Step 10) Install ant for Windows. Follow the instructions on this link if you're using Win 7 : -> http://madhukaudantha.blogspot.com/2010/06/installing-ant-for-windows-7.html
Step 11) You will need to set a parameter DBROOTPW= in the build/override/replace.properties file. Here is how my file looks –
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